Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) poster
1967 · universal · andrews · twenties

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Directed by George Roy Hill2h 32m1967
ElsewhereIMDb6.97kRT85%TMDB6.998
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • funny
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle universal / andrews, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"

Our read · Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive universal · andrews · twenties entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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What watching it is actually like.

You want fizzy Twenties musical comedy with Julie Andrews charm.

ends triumphantyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if a 152-minute musical or dated stereotypes will grate tonight.

If Thoroughly Modern Millie is your film
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fashion, romance, and effervescent Audrey-Andrews energy
(unless Paris couture over flapper New York)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
sixties workplace comedy with big brassy musical numbers
(if you need heroines not corporate climbers)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
turn-of-century matchmaking spectacle and showstopping joy
(unless Barbra over Julie tonight)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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